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“I watch too much cable, I admit,” he said. “Day after day, it gets frustrating.”

Mr Gibbs added: “So we should all, me included, stop fighting each other and arguing about our differences on certain policies, and instead work together to make sure everyone knows what is at stake because we’ve come too far to turn back now.”

There is now expected to be growing pressure for Mr Gibbs to be replaced in the autumn during what will effectively be a relaunch by the White House to regain some political momentum.

Keith Ellison, a Democratic congressman from Minnesota, said: “This is not the first time that Mr. Gibbs has made untoward and inflammatory comments and I certainly hope that people in the White House don’t share his view that the left is unimportant to the president.

“I understand him having some loyalty to the president who employs him, but I think he’s walking over the line.”

The White House did receive some good news yesterday however after their favoured candidate won the contest to be the Democrat nominee for the Senate seat in Colorado. Bill Clinton had backed a rival candidate against Michael Benet, who had been heavily supported by Mr Obama.